Engineering

The engineering sector covers a range of manufacturing and technology-based jobs and traditionally suffers from a shortage of qualified graduates.

It may be particularly attractive to physics graduates who are keen to apply their knowledge practically in the improvement and development of tangible products and processes. Many companies are happy to recruit physics graduates into engineering specialisms, and they provide extensive training.The engineering sector is huge, so there are many different jobs and types of company to choose from. There are a number of professional engineering bodies, like the Institute of Physics, each representing a different area of engineering, and each with a website offering their own careers information these include: